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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Bush administration lawyers whose secret memos approved waterboarding of terrorism suspects will not face sanctions, U.S. officials said.
BERKELEY, Calif., July 27 (UPI) -- Legal scholar John Yoo, whose U.S. Justice Department opinions allowed the Bush administration to use harsh interrogations, is mad at his critics, friends say.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Justice Department lawyer John Yoo is appealing a federal judge's ruling that Jose Padilla, held as an enemy combatant, can sue him.
WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- A group of former Bush administration officials are said to be urging U.S. Justice Department officials to soften an ethics report on interrogation tactics.
WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Questions are swirling in legal circles over what, if anything, should happen to U.S. government lawyers who are found to have given flawed advice, experts say.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. Justice Department report criticizes top Bush administration lawyers who approved the use of waterboarding on detainees, Newsweek reported Saturday.
BERKELEY, Calif., May 18 (UPI) -- Protesters at the University of California-Berkeley's law school graduation called for the firing of a professor who wrote the U.S. torture policy.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- A now defunct 81-page 2003 memo shows the Justice Department gave Pentagon officials justification to skirt laws banning harsh interrogation tactics.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. citizen convicted of aiding terrorists is suing a former federal official whose legal opinions formed the basis for alleged torture techniques.
BERKELEY, Calif., March 14 (UPI) -- The Berkeley, Calif., City Council has voted unanimously to push Germany toward a war crimes indictment against former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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